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Chicken that’s better for you

October
30

Kentucky Fried Chicken is beginning to take transfats off its menu.

The fast-food company said today it was substituting a more healthful soybean cooking oil for the artery-clogging transfats.

Earlier this year, it was sued over its use of the fats, which not only raise low-density lipoprotein or so-called bad cholesterol levels but also lower high-density or good cholesterol.

Some of KFC’s menu will still contain transfats—chicken pot pie, biscuits and mashed potatoes with gravy. The company will continue working on those items.

Wendy’s was the first to stop cooking with the harmful fats.

The announcement came as New York City held a public hearing on its proposal to ban transfats from restaurants.

This entry was posted on Monday, October 30th, 2006 at 2:02 pm by Noreen O'Donnell.
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Noreen O'DonnellNoreen O'Donnell For the last 20 years, Noreen O'Donnell has written about Hillary Clinton's run for the Senate, rebuilding Ground Zero, the Korean immigrants who travel north each day from Queens to work in nail salons, deadly runaway fire trucks and other stories in Westchester and Putnam counties. Now she's a columnist.



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